Big missunderstandings are classic angst, but in this case we have a man scared of his suppose love interest, which I think would widen the gap between them not bring them closer together. If they wanted to do Safe angst why not have Rafe waked up and have him forgotten about the last six months and only rember Sami choosing him. On other hand they already done something similar with Ejami. Still they could have had Rafe having sweet dreams of Sami waking up realizing he loves her, the fact that she is engaged to someone else is angst enough.

If Ej can be with Sami when she actually shot him in the head and then I don't see any reason why Rafe and Sami can't be together because he just thinks that she did. And I don't see him not knowing the truth lasting long and sooner or later they will have Rafe learn the truth and what do you think he's going to feel about Sami then? It's going to be a long ways from hatred. I'm just not getting your argument that just because Rafe thinks Sami shot him then there's no hope for them being together when we have Ejami on screen. And in that dream Rafe did have Sami loving him and not wanting to let him go and she seems to feel that even after all they've said to one another in the past few months Rafe would still be happy to see her. :shrug: